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say it: cheet
cheat is a noun and verb meaning "weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous". It carries 9 recorded senses.
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
“that book is a fraud”
a deception for profit to yourself
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cheat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.